Craicdown, my band with David DiGiuseppe and Jim Roberts, finally has a CD available for purchase. As you can see, the title is “Roads”, which is also the name of one of the original songs on the record. It’s about 60% instrumental, with two of the tracks being flute sets, one of which is the Monaghan Jig set which has been in my sig line for many moons (the remixed version sounds WAY better). Additionally, there is some bamboo fluting, low whistling, etc., throughout the production.
Currently, we’re handling all the sales ourselves, so if you want one right away send me a PM and we’ll make the necessary arrangements (I take Paypal!). I will post details here as other channels open up - CDBaby, etc.
Cheers, Rob! Listened to all the clips…very cool, very eclectic. I’d pay good money to see you guys; coming out to Northern California? Your singing reminds me of Ian Anderson (is that how he spells it?), from, of course, Jethro Tull. You got the great fluting as well. I have a project/band I’m working on which combines half tunes/half songs; the fiddler has done Celt rock and I’ve done pop so we may move in a similar direction. Great to have an example of how it’s done well.
There’s nothing I’d like better, personally, than a professional excuse to come out to Northern California. I lived in San Fran for a short bit, and have nothing but fond memories of the place. Feel free to send along any tips you might have about good places to play out there.
Thanks, Charlie, for the kind words. It does my heart good to hear that you’re enjoying the CD so much.
Thomaston, the latest word I have on digital download is that we’ll be up on CDBaby soon. They have the material, so it shouldn’t be long now. I will certainly post a link here when it becomes available.
I bought the mp3 album from CD Baby this morning and I’ve been listening to it all day. Nice diverse mix of tunes. On some tunes I hear some Sharon Shannon influence (maybe?) In any case, well done! It’s a keeper.
As the the Sharon Shannon thing, you may be onto something there…remember that Sharon spent loads of time in Doolin as a young player. That’s also a T-shirt I have a closetfull of myself. On one of the back walls of McGann’s Pub there’s a picture of what looks like about a 14-year-old Sharon sitting next to an impossibly young Kevin Griffin; Micho was probably behind the camera. I never met Micho myself but I did learn loads of music from people who grew up playing with him.
Somewhere out there, there could be some pics of Paul Hill’s 50th birthday party, the only gig I ever played with Sharon Shannon. Cheers,
well! Congrats!!
